Authors

  • Echo Gone Wrong Echo Gone Wrong
  • Pärtel Vissak Pärtel Vissak

    Pärtel Vissak is an Estonian artist and writer with BA in semiotics. He is analyzing art through culture, sociology and free associations. Pärtel is also documenting the Estonian nightlife at fluon.blogspot.com

     

     

  • Neringa Černiauskaitė Neringa Černiauskaitė

    Neringa Černiauskaitė is an art critic, curator and editor in chief of
    Lithuanian contemporary art daily www.artnews.lt. She is an
    undergraduate at Bard's Centre for Curatorial Studies, NY.

  • Mindaugas Gapševičius Mindaugas Gapševičius

    Mindaugas Gapševičius is an artist, facilitator, and curator living and working between Berlin, London and Vilnius. He is one of the initiators of the project space POT in Kassel and an active participant in various conferences, projects and workshops related to networks and digital culture.

     

  • Marie Vellevoog Marie Vellevoog

    Marie Vellevoog holds BA in art history from Tartu University and is currently pursuing MA from Estonian Academy of Arts in the same subject. In her research she is concentrating on installation art from the 1990s.

  • Antra Priede Antra Priede

    Antra Priede is an art historian and curator. She works in Art Academy of Latvia as Study methodologist. She have graduated from History and Theory of Visual Arts and Culture MA at Art Academy of Latvia.

  • Vytautas Michelkevičius Vytautas Michelkevičius

    Vytautas Michelkevičius  (LT, Vilnius/Nida) is a theorist, activist, and curator, working with art and media projects and interested in socializing through art, interdisciplinarity between art and research, experimental teaching, and participatory curatorial practices. He holds PhD in Communication & Media studies, lectures in Vilnius Academy of Arts and works as artistic director of Nida Art Colony since 2010.

     

  • Anna Veilande Kustikova Anna Veilande Kustikova

    Anna Veilande Kustikova is independent curator, an expert at Video Art Archive of Latvia as well as lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts, Critical analysis of animated film and contemporary moving image. She studies Art History and Theory at Latvian Academy of Arts.

  • Oliver Laas Oliver Laas

     

    Oliver Laas is an Estonian cultural theorist and an aspiring philosopher. He holds a BA in fine art from the Estonian Academy of Arts, an MA in cultural theory from the Estonian Institute of Humanities, and is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the same institution.

     

  • Simon Barker Simon Barker

    Simon Barker is a Tallinn based philosopher, writer, poet, visual text thingy and occasional breakdancing performance artist. He has graduated from Classical Studies at University of London,  continued in Philosophy at Kings College and gained Ph.D. at University of London in 2008. He lectures on Epistemology and Hellenictic Philosophy in Tallinn University since 2012. He writes on culture and art at simonbarker.is.

  • Gintarė Matulaitytė Gintarė Matulaitytė

    Gintarė Matulaitytė is an editor of contemporary art news daily on-line Echo Gone Wrong representing Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. She is initiator of One Night Only Gallery in Vilnius and a student at Vilnius Academy of Arts.

  • Rebeka Põldsam Rebeka Põldsam
  • Alise Upitis Alise Upitis

     

    Alise Upitis holds an A.B., summa cum laude, from Smith College and a PhD from the MIT Department of Architecture. In 2009-10 she was Visiting Scholar in the Archive of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and is currently Assistant Curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Her research concerns postwar treatments of abnormality and computational technologies in architecture, art and design, and the place of research and knowledge production in contemporary art.

     

  • Indrek Grigor Indrek Grigor

    Indrek Grigor is an art theorist graduated from semiotics in Tartu.
    Indrek is a gallery manager at Tartu Art House and lectures at Tartu Art College and Estonian Academy of Arts. He is part of  the board of art criticism blog Artishok and cultural newspaper Müürileht as well as the editor in chief of the podcast Tartu möliseb. He is convinced modernist and structuralist.

     

  • Justė Kostikovaitė Justė Kostikovaitė

    Justė Kostikovaitė studies curating contemporary art at Royal College of Art, London. In 2011 she organised artist residency project CAN and the workshop Spheres of Power.Tension&Excange in Berlin. In 2012 together with Žilvinas Landsbergas she organised the artist residency project in Vilnius MaloniojiAIR.

  • Tanel Rander Tanel Rander

    Tanel Rander is an Estonian artist, writer, researcher mainly interested in applying decolonial theories in East European context.

  • Ernest Truely Ernest Truely

    Ernest Truely is an artist from America working in an Estonian context. Since 2008 Mr. Truely has coordinated international artist residency at Culture Factory Polymer in Tallinn Estonia. He is one of the founding members of Error, a collective that creates social installations from available resources in disused spaces. Mr. Truely is a lecturer at Baltic Film and Media school and offers alternative art educational lectures and workshops throughout Europe.

  • Justin Tyler Tate Justin Tyler Tate

    Justin Tyler Tate was born in Canada, grew up in the United States and now lives in Estonia. Receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts from NSCAD University his work combines elements of sculpture, installation, media and performance. Tate’s work is concerned with ideas of space, function and interactivity; he uses traditional methods of construction/fabrication in unconventional ways, altering the purpose of a space and thereby, changing how viewers experience it.

  • Ulrike Gerhardt Ulrike Gerhardt

    Ulrike Gerhardt lives and works as a curator in Berlin. She holds an MA in cultural studies and runs the project space "Note On" since 2011. Currently she is working on her dissertation in the field of visual studies, researching on contemporary artists from the Baltic countries. Her main interests lie in experimental exhibition making, institutional critique and contemporary art from a post-socialist context.

     

     

     

     

  • Justė Jonutytė Justė Jonutytė